Metallic car construction.



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METALLIC! OAR GONSTRUTIN. PPLIGATION FILED 16616.27. 1906.

UNITED Srarns rarmvrv orifice.' 4

ETHAN 1.' Donne', or AvALoN, PENNSYLVANIA, Assienoa rro 'THE PULLMAN COMPANY, or CHICAGO, iLLiNois, A CoRroaArioN OF ILLINOIS.

METALLIC CAR. CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent. i

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application tiled March 27. 1905. Serial No. 252,389.

T0 (LZZ wiz/omit may concern:

Be it known that I, ETHAN I. DoDDs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Avalon, county of Allegheny, State of Penn- 5 Sylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Car Construction, of which the following is a speciiication.

The present invention relates to the end construction of a car made wholly or largely of steel; and its object is broadly te produce a car of this character which is strong, durable, and capable of resisting the strains to which the car is subjectedin the way of end and lateral thrusts at the car ends.

The invention is particularly applicable to gondola cars, although it will be understood that the same principles of construction can be applied to other types of freight-carrying cars. i f y Afurther object of the invention is to make the car ends easy of repair in case of the bending or twisting of the end members by reason of accident It is recognized as generally advisable in the construction of gondola cars to reinforce the ends 'with ribs or other supporting or strengthening means, and it has been customary to employ for V this `purpose angleirons placed upon the end sills of the ear and secured thereto and to the car ends by means of rivets. It is also usual for the car ends to be made in one plate extending transversely of the car from side to side. In place of the described construction I propose to build up each car end of two or more plates and to provide a pressedisteel uniting member for joining the same, the said uniting member being further su plied with an extension adapted to pass own over` the ends of' the draft-sills and to provide a suitable covering therefor as well as a support for the shank oi.t the draw-bar. This uniting member will also generally be provided with ribs or em'- bossments for increasingits strength and that of the entire end construction.

By the means described a compact and durable end construction is provided for cars, while at the same time the end of the car is sufficiently subdivided, so that in case of an accident whereby the end is bent or twisted y there will be no diiiculty in finding a furnace big enough to eiiect the needed repairs, wherethem.

as this difiiculty exists in a high degree when i an ornamental corner structure as well as a support for a reinforcing corner member.

Referring to the accompanying illustrative drawings, Figure l is an end elevation of-a gondola car to which my invention is applied. Fig. 2 is a plan sectional view taken along the line 2 2 in Fig. l.' Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken along the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the uniting member for the end plates, showing also the extension for covering the draft-sill; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the corner member formed of bent channel-steel. v l

In the drawings, the draft-sills are shown at l l. These may be the ends of longitudinal center-sills of theear, that extend past the body-bolster and project, if desired, beyond the end oi the car. Above the main body of the sills are floor-sheets, (shown at 2,) and above the ends of the sills are plates 3 3, sliown'in the present instance as two in number. These plates extend from the corner members 4 4 toward the middle of the car ieces as illustrated in Fi 4 or in a sin le P, y 7

piece, as shown in Fig. 1. It is 'provided with ribs or embossments 9 9, and also with an extension 10, formed with two bentportions 1`1 l1, having an opening 12 between the draft-sills 1 1,while the opening 12 admits the usual draft-bar and permits the free move ment of the same.

The floor-sheets 2 2 are supported at the corners by rolled members 13 13, which pro'- ject out from the body-bolster toward the cornero of the car. These corners'are provided w'ith' flanged lmembers 1,4 14. riveted The bent portions cover the ends of' IOO to tin' floor-sheets and to the corner members 1- 4.'.

It will be noted that the comer members are formed by bending channel-pieces backward, thus leavin@r an ornamental finish at the car-corners an at the saine time serving the usual purposes ol corner members. It' will. also be seen that the car ends are made up of comparatively small plates, which can be straightened in an ordinary furnace after being :'ecidentally bent or twisted. The uniting member serves not only as a stiiiener in a 'vertica direction, but also as a butt-strap for the end plates` The whole construction admits of' the parte being readily separated and replaced, or a new plate or other member can, in. case oi' necessit or convenience, be substituted in place o an old one.

The entire organization, composed of the end plates 3 3 and the uniting members 6, may be regarded as a unitary structure constituting the end of a car.

At 15 I show'side plates extending from the corner members to the side stakes 16 16.

This patent isintended to embrace only so much of the disclosure made herein as is covered by the claims.

'I claim as my inventionn 1. Au end member for cars comprising a plurality of end plates and a uniting member constituting a butt-strap therefor and provided with embossments extending from approximately the plane of the upper surface of the draft-sills toward the top oi the car, substantially as described.

2. An end member for cars comprising a plurality oi' end plates, and a uniting member constituting a butt-strap.therefor, and provided with embossments tapering from approximately the plane of the upper surface of the draft-sills toward the top of the car, substantially as described.

3. An end member for cars comprising a plurality of end plates, and an uniting mem ber constituting a butt-strap therefor and provided with extensions covering the ends ofthe draft-sills, substantially as described.

4. In a car, an end covering for the draft sills, the'said covering forming part of an end structure provided With vertical embossments, substantially as described.

5. In a car having draft-sills, an end member having vertical embossmentsand a horizontal flan e extending over the draft-sills, substantially as described.

6. In a car havin draft-sills and plategirder sides, the com ination of one or more end plates, a pressed embossed end member havin one or more vertical ribs arranged centraly of the car end and attached to said end plate or plates, and corner members joining said end and side plates, substantially as described.

7. In a car having the usual body-bolster ner, and a corner member of channel cross- .section forming a compression member and extending from the top corner-angle down- Ward below the plane of the floor of the car, in combination with an angular flanged member uniting said corner member at the top with the transverse angular pieces, and an angular flanged member at the bottom uniting said corner member with brace, substantially as described.

8. As a corner member for cars, a piece of channel .metal bent longitudinally so as to leave 'its flanges exten ed outwardly, sub'- stantially as described.

9. In a railway-car, the combination of a plate-girder side, an end plate, and a corner member fastened to said side and end plate, comprising a channel-bar Whose Web is bent longitudinally to form an angle with its flanges extended outwardly, substantially as described.

10. As a corner member for ears, a piece of channel metal bent so as to leave its flanges outward, in combination with side and end car-plates, secured to the corner member, substantially as described.

11. The combination with a car having longitudinal' center-sills and flying transoms projecting from the center-sills and also hav ing end and side plates, of a corner member consisting of a iece of channel metal bent so as to have its anges outward, substantially as described.

12. In a car, a pressed-steel corner mem'- ber of angular form, having a continuous flange around two of its sides and in engagement with the floorsheets, in combination with longitudinal and an le members at .the corner of the car'and un erneath said oorsheets and angles, and secured to the bottom end of the bent channelcorner member, substantially as described.l

13. A car havin metallic ends and sills, in combination wit a double-hanged corner member with its flanges extended outwardly formed from a channel member, said memthe diagonal IOO ber being supported by the underframe, substantiall as described.

Si' ne at Chica o, in the county of Cook and tate of Illinois, this 20th day of March, A. D. 1905.

ETHAN I. DODDS. Witnesses:

SAMUEL lN. POND, FREDERICK C. GOODWIN.

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